NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
14hr ago
I don’t think this is responding to anything I had posted.
In the example Jocko had shared the notorious bad guy was hated by locals. He was the kind of guy who would torture and kill your whole family if he suspected you were collaborating with coalition forces.
NewCharlesInCharge
22hr ago
Being hamstrung by dumb rules of engagement is a common complaint of GWOT veterans.
Jocko had a short solo episode in response to the Kirk shooting where he discussed this. He offered an example where his unit had received intel that a notorious bad guy was going to be at a certain time and place and wanted to take him out. They couldn’t do this on their own since the RoE demanded that someone display hostile intent. Basically if the guy didn’t pick up a weapon, then he wasn’t fair game. And he was leadership and not dumb, so he probably wouldn’t pick up a weapon.
They needed a declaration from higher ups, I think flag officers, that this man was to be considered hostile. With such a declaration they could engage him without him displaying any hostile intent. They ran it up the flagpole and were denied.
The Kirk link was that they accepted the decision, Americans abide rule of law, and that’s a good thing. It’s a bad thing that one guy on his own got to declare Kirk hostile and take him out.
NewCharlesInCharge
1d ago
Hammer has “broken character” on the show before and revealed that the participants are told he’s going to play up meanness for the cameras but that it’s a bit. This was when one of the participants broke down crying at one of his wisecracks, and he tried to console saying he wasn’t trying to be hurtful, he’s sorry, this is the mean guy stuff they had agreed to.
So, it’s all consenting adults, and probably it’s meant to make viral clips to help promote the show, but I’m also uncomfortable with the meanness.
NewCharlesInCharge
2d ago
The back of the house in your authentic ethnic restaurants are mostly staffed by Mexicans and Central Americans.
I don’t know what point I’m making here, but the idea that we need immigrants for culinary diversity is somewhat incongruous with the homogeneity of who cooks the food.
NewCharlesInCharge
3d ago
“Girls don’t like me. Maybe I’m gay?”
This is unironically a thought I had in adolescence. I went to porn to test the hypothesis and it came back negative.
NewCharlesInCharge
7d ago
They campaigned on “saving democracy” but can’t bring themselves to defend the democratically enacted laws being enforced by Trump.
Something like “we may not like these laws, we may not like how the administration speaks about them, but that’s why we need to work to elect more Democrats and change the laws. But for now we need to respect the individuals tasked with enforcing these laws.”
That would be legitimizing something Trump does, and that’s not possible to do.
NewCharlesInCharge
10d ago
Here's Liberty and Justice For All: http://songs.justicechoir.org/LibertyForAll
The Justice Choir logo features a closed fist. The lyrics:
We are frightened; We are angry; We are rising; We are hopeful; We are peaceful; We are striving; Won't stop fighting; Won't stop marching; Won't stop dreaming; Wont stop loving and proclaiming and believing
Our voices are united louder than hate, We have gathered here, We've had all we can take The time has come, you will hear our call. We're fighting for liberty and justice for all.
It includes this note from the composer:
The recent demonstrations and marches taking place throughout the country led me to the phrase 'liberty and justice for all.' Many steadfastly recite this line in the Pledge of Allegiance, but those words ring hollow for many Americans who find their civil liberties under attack, and the scales of justice tipped in favor of the wealthy and powerful. Protests are a small portion of what we must do in order to work toward a nation that truly provides liberty and justice FOR ALL
This is clearly a protest song with no indication that the hate being protested against is authored by Satan. Copyright 2017, it's either about Trump or police, probably both.
NewCharlesInCharge
13d ago
ABC yanked Bill Maher's show for saying that the 9/11 attackers weren't cowardly.
NewCharlesInCharge
13d ago
In the Murthy v Missouri case the implied threat was "we'll utterly ruin your whole business model by repealing section 230" not "we'll fine you for violating this specific provision of broadcaster regulations."
And that was in the context of regular check-ins with the FBI and other federal agents to ensure content rules were satisfactory, were being enforced, and also "we found a guy with five followers breaking a rule, please enforce the rule on him."
NewCharlesInCharge
14d ago
Not that Loughner wasn't deranged and assigning him to a political category is a fool's errand, but there were six killed in the shooting.
NewCharlesInCharge
17d ago
A prosecutions database won’t include unprosecutable, i.e. dead, perpetrators.
NewCharlesInCharge
20d ago
I think Kirk would have disagreed that he ought to be murdered but wouldn’t want his murder to justify restrictions on gun rights.
The optimal number of murders is not zero. The cost of what we would have to do to implement a zero murder society would not be worth it.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
NICE in the UK
I would've thought Parliament had enough C.S. Lewis fans to avoid this name.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
You could make a state-funded lender of last resort for such cases.
If you're denied then the state advances the funds at the same cost that would have been charged to the insurance company. The loan becomes non-dischargeable and the state is able to garnish wages and seize assets should it become necessary.
They also assume the right to represent the patient to the insurance company and demand payment. Should the treatment have actually been approved according to the insurance policy, the insurer has some penalty big enough to incentivize them not to play denial games and to keep the lender solvent.
This could lead to interest rates being a function of insurer denial accuracy. If it's very likely the state will recover from insurers, interest rates could be very low. If insurers are exceptionally accurate and you're very unlikely to recover, then insurance rates could approach the same as any unsecured loan for a person of your creditworthiness.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Young boys also enjoy Bluey.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I mean someone working on the site’s codebase, presumably with all the necessary credentials.
It makes for very short iteration times to run dev code locally connected to the prod database. That’s how we work on the front end code at Meta.
But I have no clue how people work on the code here.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Having gone through the permanent resident process for my wife, there were a lot of things that were potentially disqualifying that would have been protected activities for citizens. Being a member of the Communist party*, advocating for the overthrow of the American government, etc.
Does permanent resident status confer the right to participate in those activities that could have prevented you from getting that status in the first place?
* This came up and it seemed like not a big deal if the situation was "everyone has to participate in communist activities in China."
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Localhost:1881
Substack is just processing the Referrer header in the HTTP request that browsers will send when users click a link.
So, someone has links to your Substack on a locally hosted page. Maybe one of our own viewing a locally hosted version of The Motte?
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Most Americans seem to have broadly positive views of the Viet Cong, whose calling card was using innocent villagers as cover.
"The Vietname war was a mistake" is a common sentiment among Americans, but "the VC were good guys" is not.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Huh. My expectation was that there was more to the story, not that literally nothing could be corroborated.
Typically the way these play out is the person is going to an appointment with USCIS, it turns out the person already has a deportation order or a felony or something in their past that disqualifies them, and ICE took the opportunity to pick them up and deport them.
Stories like these demonstrate misunderstanding of how these systems work. They are still lumbering bureacracies. There are no Judge Dredds that will unilaterally send you to CECOT. Even if you're not already a green card holder, and the USCIS civil servant conducting your interview decides he doesn't like your face and won't approve your application, it's not straight to deportation. A Notice To Appear is issued, which starts the ball rolling for an Order of Removal.
Even the expansions under Trump to for expedited removal wouldn't apply to the particulars of this "case."
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
That sounds like regular selective pressure. The communities that can maintain fertility will be the ones that dominate in the long run.
You can model the sexual revolution as a heritable fertility disease for which a small segment of the population was immune or had attenuated effects, even if the source of their resistance was cultural rather than biological.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
If religion is transmissible and religious individuals are more fertile than the irreligious then it seems inevitable that the secular will be simply outbred, no?
Winning “converts” to secularism is a small tactical victory if they go on to have fewer than two children.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Why aren't these women celebrating the freedom of hiding their gender? I don't see any think pieces on how freeing it is to post PRs under a genderless username, or to shitpost on X as a genderless anon.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
I just watched the film. I couldn’t stop imagining how poorly received it would be with any other race combination.
A Bavarian beer hall gets set upon by Jewish vampires who menace the Germans with renditions of Hava Nagila.
A honky tonk besieged by a group of black vampires who blast hip hop and crip walk.
An English pub boarding itself up against Muslim vampires who are broadcasting a call to prayer and unfurling prayer rugs.
A requirement to employ equal numbers of terrorists from the left and the right as professors would be so very Trumpian.
Universities could comply by just not having terrorist professors.
But they’d probably comply by hiring Gitmo detainees and classifying them as on the right because of their religious motivation.
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